Blacks and racism – conspired bondage

While channel surfing I came across the biography of Larry the Cable Guy on the Biography channel. I happen to be a fan of Larry the Cable Guy and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. But here’s my point.

Larry is a gifted, hysterically funny comic who appeals to tens of millions of people of every description. But, not altogether surprisingly, Biography reported that Larry had come under sharp attack, for what his critics call racist jokes and unkind comments about homosexuals.

Larry does jokes, not criticism of the act of homosexuality. But it is my opinion – criticizing the chosen act of homosexuality is only wrong to those who object, because they fear that with enough criticism, people will awaken to the truth that it is a chosen act of base commonality, and that it is as unnatural as a cat with three tails.

The joke that Larry does about guys wearing their pants hanging halfway off their behinds, as wearing them half-mast for a rapper who died, is about as racist as it is to criticize Obama’s policies. But that notwithstanding he has been called racist and insensitive.

Here’s my question: if that joke is evidence of Larry’s racism, what is it when Eddie Murphy or the other black comics openly mock and mimic whites? How are whites supposed to feel as they sit in a predominantly black audience, with a black comic making jokes about them, some of which go way overboard? What would be the response of a black person, sitting in an audience of whites, with a white comic making a joke about them – the way blacks walk, talk, about hip-hop or heaven forbid about wearing their pants hanging off their behinds? The answer is they attack them as racist as they did Larry.

Larry isn’t a political figure, he’s a comic and a comics job is to make people laugh. He isn’t vulgar, he isn’t crude and unpolished- he’s funny in a way that every person outside of a new black panther party meeting and the Rachel Maddow show can enjoy.

My point is this; blacks have been sold a bill of goods about themselves and about the world. For all of the bravado about black pride, dashikis, natural hair, the motherland, afro-centrism, and pan-africanism – the bottom line is many blacks are ashamed of themselves and have deep feelings of inculcated inferiority complex.

They cleave to the past and myths about the reality of what was, because it gives them something of value, that they can leverage as currency and power over others.

And standing by ready to capitalize on same is a complicit media, and political figures including Obama himself. They prey on that inculcated emotional baggage, using it as a caldron to foment racial animus for their personal gain.

It is tragic, but it continues. And it continues because people allow it too. Some do so out of ignorance of the pass, others do it out of ignorance, and others as I’ve pointed out for personal gain at the expense of social harmony.

Until blacks are willing to acknowledge they are free and that white people are not getting up in the morning conspiring to do them harm – many will continue to clothe themselves in vestiges of bitterness and inferiority, while blaming others as validation for their social anxieties.